Harvard Business School is a leading international research institution on the creation and development of prominent global industries. HBS’s Baker Library Special Collections is home to one of the world’s most comprehensive and diverse collections of business history and allows global scholars to follow the trails of business history across companies, industries, individuals and movements. Additionally Special Collections’ HBS Archives record the history of the Harvard Business School from its founding in 1908 to the current day. Major components of the collection include the teaching files and research papers of HBS faculty as well as the official records of all administrative departments. Through its web archiving efforts, Special Collections is committed to documenting the legacy of business and HBS in the digital age.

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This website provides an overview of Harvard Business School including its academic programs, facts and figures about the school such as key dates in its history, campus & culture, and school leadership. Of particular interest are the school's annual and financial reports dating back to 2006 and descriptions of all of the buildings on campus.

Baker Library advances the mission of the Harvard Business School by providing distinctive information services, resources and expertise so that our community excels. The website supports faculty, doctoral and MBA students, executive education participants, and external researchers in their research and curriculum activities. The website describes both physical and digital collections including articles/journals, databases, HBS cases, research guides and historical collections. The website also includes access to all online exhibits created by Baker Library Special Collections.

The C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning was established in 2004 to promote and support teaching excellence and innovation within Harvard Business School. It also provides leadership and expertise about case method teaching and participant-centered learning for instructors at other institutions in the United States and abroad.

Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. is an American business services company that provides commercial data to businesses on credit history, business-to-business sales and marketing, counterparty risk exposure, supply chain management, lead scoring and social identity matching.

Throughout the school's history, a hallmark of HBS faculty research has been its power in practice. Research efforts take different forms, including sustained HBS-wide initiatives and multidisciplinary projects to carry out an evolving agenda and make a substantive difference in the world. This collection includes the websites of the initiatives and projects currently underway at HBS and the main page of the Initiatives & Projects which provides an overview of the research at HBS.

The Harvard Business School African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) is a not-for-profit membership organization serving over 2,200 African American, African, and other graduates of HBS who identify with an African American heritage. It is dedicated to building and sustaining a beneficial network that connects alumni, current students, and applicants with HBS to increase our influence at the School and in the broader African American Community.

The Harvard Business School alumni website is the source of information for recent graduates and updates regarding HBS alumni. It is also the destination for career management, professional development resources, community networks, and alumni events and reunions.

In 2008, Harvard Business School celebrated its Centennial anniversary with a variety of events, projects, and leadership initiatives. This website describes several of these events including the Global Business Summit where more than 2,000 world leaders gathered to discuss seminal business issues, The Conversation, in which HBS faculty posed questions on major issues, and Colloquia, where HBS faculty collaborated with academic colleagues and practitioners to explore a variety of topics. Also included is the Institutional Memory website which has been captured and described in a separate collection.

The website provides an overview of the Harvard Business School Doctoral Programs including program overview, descriptions of current and former students, and the admissions process. Students in all the programs take two years of rigorous course work at HBS, at various Harvard departments as well as at MIT. Both the DBA and PhD programs serve to train students in terms of the most cutting edge academic research methods and put them on a path toward becoming scholars in business academia.

Note that the links to the Featured Students/Faculty Publications on the home page are re-directed to the HBS Faculty & Research website. For more complete descriptions of the publications please see the archived HBS Faculty & Research Collection.

HBS Executive Education is an immersive learning experience offered to business leaders from a diverse mix of backgrounds, industries and countries. The website provides information about its programs, program structure and participants, faculty, and the admissions process.

The Harvard Business School Faculty & Research website is the source for learning about whom the Harvard Business School faculty is and the research they are working on. It is also the destination for keeping abreast of seminars and conferences and references to the thousands of publications including articles, books, cases, presentations, and research summaries produced by the faculty. Also of interest are overviews of the academic units at HBS and the faculty associated with the units.

The Faculty Seminar Series features the work of leading faculty from Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business. Each seminar is presented on a CD-ROM and provides the participant inspirational ideas, penetrating insights, and practical advice from faculty experts. Included are classroom lectures and synchronized slides that illustrate the presentation. Each seminar also links to a companion Web site that lists additional resources recommended by the faculty.

The MBA program at Harvard Business School is a two year program focused on in-depth case-method learning and a hands-on Field Immersion Experiences for Learning Development (FIELD). The website describes the academic experience, student life, career paths, and admissions into the program.

The New Venture Competition is an annual student competition sponsored by Harvard Business School's Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Initiative. The twitter feed, which dates back to its inception in April 2011, captures the competition as it unfolds.

The two main foci of this website are the newsroom and press releases. The newsroom presents articles that are about HBS, features HBS faculty and alumni, or may be a topic that may be of interest to the HBS community. The press releases, organized by month, focus mainly on HBS and its community.

The Open Forum is an initiative sponsored by Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria and exists to provide a way for Harvard students, faculty, and staff to expand their impact on the world by creating a collaborative community focused on solving the vexing social problems that lie at the center of their ambitious work. The website includes both active and completed challenges, which first states a challenge and then tracks, evaluates and announces the winning ideas submitted by the Harvard community.

This collection preserves websites used to promote and inform Harvard Business School student clubs. These websites generally contain description of the club and activities, roster of officers, calendar of events, reports on activities and conferences, photographs, and blog posts.

The HBS YouTube Channel is a diverse collection of videos featuring Harvard Business School students, professors, research, events, and the HBS campus. Although an attempt has been made to archive the entirety of the website since the channel's inception in 2009, certain file types may not have been captured due to how they were embedded in the site.

HBX is a digital learning initiative powered by the faculty of Harvard Business School launched in 2015. The HBX YouTube channel includes videos about the various programs and courses offered through HBX and student profiles and testimonials.

The Institutional Memory website tells the story of HBS over the past 100 years with video narratives from faculty, staff, students, and generations of alumni, accompanied by a gallery of historical photos and an interactive timeline. The multimedia experience Inquiry & Innovation: 1908-2008, deeply explores the founding of the School based on authoritative texts, including A Delicate Experiment.

Each year a handful of graduating MBA students are asked a straightforward, simple question taken from the last lines of a poem by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Mary Oliver. The websites shares intimate and candid responses to this question, Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

The Polaroid Retirees Association, Incorporated was established in 1985 to allow retired Polaroid employees to share the experience of retirement, exchange ideas, plan group activities, continue the Polaroid Experience, and act as a resource for administration of their retirement benefits.

HBS Working Knowledge is a forum for innovation in business practice, offering readers a first look at cutting-edge thinking from HBS faculty. Every day, HBSWK features new work from among the more than 200 HBS faculty at the forefront of their diverse fields of expertise.